Chapter 1,421.
Added 2025-10-28 19:42:50 +0000 UTCComments
That was wild asf. It reminded me of The eventude Asuras ascent toward the end there
Edgar Segura
2025-12-14 19:57:38 +0000 UTCWhy would he use other void types? When he reaches a high enough level, his Void of Life and Void of Death will have more concepts incorporated into them so he wouldn't have a reason to use other Void types. Not only that but he'd have to gain understanding of those types so it really would just be a waste of time, especially since so many of y'all want zac to remain at 1000% all the way till the end with barely any rest time, that time could be used on far better things.
Lex Luther S
2025-10-30 09:49:21 +0000 UTCI can barely understand your sentence bro but thats not possible. Yrial entered a Peak C graded mystic realm in or near his sector and it seems thats where he either fell or became trapped or maybe he found his opportunity and broke through to become a Divine monarch and eventually ascended to Autarchy. One thing I do know is there's no way it hasn't been hundreds of thousands to maybe even millions of years since his foray into that mystic realm; as the tool spirit of the "Tower of myriad dao" has long grown a tad crazy, I doubt thats something that happens after a few hundred thousand years. So the only way yrial would be alive is if he broke through to Autarchy. Now I do hope Yrial is alive and zac somehow meets him as he'd definitely at the 2nd or 3rd step or maybe even be a middle Autarch at that point. That way he can give zac some pointers beyond monarchy
Lex Luther S
2025-10-30 09:45:08 +0000 UTCAt 3ish PM(by my time zone) or in roughly 9 hours and 24 minutes.
Lex Luther S
2025-10-30 09:36:12 +0000 UTCWhen is 1422 coming finally? I can't wait any longer.
Daniel1969
2025-10-30 09:12:55 +0000 UTCI had a funny thought... What if the LIE or a Realm that dumped hom here is where Yrial vanished? What if some shenanigans has happened and Yrial got himself stuck in one of these dreams here along the way similar to what happened to Janos in the Ensolus Ruins or did so intentionally to hope it would buy himself the time to figure out an escape and he either while Zac is here or when others go to step out of the dream he does as well later? That would be a fun meeting as this Yrial would have zero clue who Zac is. Lmao. Fun food for thought.
Dennis Damenis
2025-10-30 00:05:45 +0000 UTCSpeaking of Yrial like some mentioned in this thread, and others like best girl Iz Tayn, the higher one's affinities the more heavenly beauty they have. We know that. Zac looks rugged but like a mortal because he has literally all the way zero affinities with any Dao. But we also now know that Zac is increasing his Void affinities into infinite even now just as Karz was raising his Dao affinities in the past. We know this will be having aome effect because hints going back forever. One gets closer to the Heavens the higher they take thsir Dao affinities thus they take on more and more of its radiance in their grace and looks. Whay does taking on more and more of the Void do along this line? And I do you guys think he will starts eventually using other Void affinities? Literally no reason he cant eventually. The only reason I can think of he doesnt right now it because he can only source the Voids of the Daos he has right now because he cannot currently use his Personal Void fully we suspect until his C Grade Bloodline advancement. Personally I suspect this might be a part of what he needs his current Void powers ate lacking and why they kniw their heist will fail if they tried it now with only what Zac had before deciding to advance his Grade to Peak. I dont think that interpretation is correct though. I dont think they need simply more of his current Void things, I think they need the use if his Personal Voidnand perhaps the use of additional Void affinities like how Karz was using wsy more Dao affinities than anyone else could. He touched his Personal Void a brief moment when he had to rob it a bit to force it open to kill Kator and form his Void Emperor Apotheosis. Zac told us he was robbing himself and this was absolutely bad. It wasnt until here with Mox and a few other things at the LIE he finally gave back to his Personal Void what he took back then. Remember, he said it had been too early, and I think he even alluded to or outright stated he shouldn't be able to use it until C Grade Bloodline. We saw he was literally able to draw in Void Energy with ease the way thoae lile Iz does Cosmic Energy and such. The reason his Bloodline keeps gobbling up every treasure it can is the same reason we know Karz used his to absorb the Dao from treasures only inverted. His Personal Void is refining everything he dumps into it until its useful to him, which also explains why he needs to wait until C Grade Bloodline to touch his Personal Void and doing so early robbed it. He is eating those treasures to increase his Void Affinities in a way directly inverted to what Karz was doing with Daos. So follow that logic to its seeming conclusion and you get no obvious reason Zac, once he has free access to his Personal Void safely, shouldn't be able to source Void Energy of whatever Voids he has enhanced his affinties with up to this point. We see what the power if the Void of Conflict is, bringing Creation/Life and Oblivion/Death together to forge Chaos. And what the Voids of Life and Death do with his melee Techniques. Imagine what he can do Void of Chaos. Or the many other Voids he is cultivating his affinities to passively as his Bloodline eats everything. The first thing that comes to mind is Zac will be able to be able to use these Voids as true countermagic to the Daos of others. I bring Dao of Fire he counters with Void of Fire. I bring Dao of Lightning he brings Void of Lightning. This would cost of course likely more in Void Energy than they spend in Mental Energy but it is a hell of a way to force openings for aces to finish the job or for defense. Even infiltration of places, which is exactly why I think this is what they will need his C Grade Bloodline for during the heist. Thoughts?
Dennis Damenis
2025-10-29 23:54:59 +0000 UTCHe has to try or the Sangha will claim he's one of them.
Omiso
2025-10-29 12:58:23 +0000 UTCLate Hegemon and as for Yrial he will probably be peak by now
SandreX
2025-10-29 09:03:13 +0000 UTCZac is never gonna stop styling his hair like a balding monk. Just imagine trying to buy ‘heaven defying’ hair gel to pat down the electric static in his fro.
Salvo
2025-10-29 08:59:01 +0000 UTCHasn’t it been years since then though? The war lasted several years, then the trip through the graveyard and the trial has been a few years too maybe. Who knows when they will actually get back to earth. I think it will be a valuable visit even if he is allready c grade since he needs to deal with Brazla harshly.
Silent Consent
2025-10-29 07:41:37 +0000 UTCRemind me again, was Kator peak hegemon? What about Yrial Tobrial?
TKO
2025-10-29 07:35:36 +0000 UTCToo easy, something bonkers will happen before this is over.
Silent Consent
2025-10-29 07:32:14 +0000 UTCAyeeee my OCD has been super triggered. I'm going to come back in a day or two when next chapter goes up and hope that all the lighting in this chapter has magically been replaced by lightning
Ian
2025-10-29 04:09:34 +0000 UTCOh man please please please do a mass search and replace for lighting --> lightning. I haven't finished the chapter yet, but even if you do use the word 'lighting' intentionally once, I'd so much rather see that misspelled than multiple lightnings missing a 'n'.
Ian
2025-10-29 04:07:35 +0000 UTCThe explanation is simple. The heavens are impatient.
Timothy Dana
2025-10-29 01:36:57 +0000 UTCIt’s called the ruthless heavens for a reason I guess.
Justin
2025-10-29 01:12:36 +0000 UTCNice, looking forward to the next one
Dale
2025-10-29 01:06:27 +0000 UTCZac is absolutely going to have to turn whatever his technocrat family uses to reduce tribulations into an orthodox method if he wants to survive his breakthrough to Monarchy. At this point he’ll have to survive 10 bolts to break into Divine Monarchy. Let’s hope Zac gets some questions answered as to why specifically the heavens are trying to eradicate him before he has completed his breakthrough. That’s been the thing I’ve wanted answers to more than anything else. We know it hates the void cultivation, but I can’t recall an explanation as to why it won’t wait until core formation is complete.
Ben Sheahan
2025-10-29 00:38:21 +0000 UTCWouldn’t it be funny if Esmeralda became goddess again, with help from The Second Singularity, and still got caught in Zac tides of fate? She can be the goddess of fortune of his Void Road. His imperial Loot tax collector
Timothy Dana
2025-10-29 00:16:45 +0000 UTCTrue. But he’s also going to NEED to be in peak shape immediately after.
Jeff McCulley
2025-10-28 23:11:22 +0000 UTCMentioned that during g his battle with Kator, that it was ramping up to two full cycles at C grade. So, six strikes when he forms his inner world. Extra fuel?
Jeff McCulley
2025-10-28 23:06:35 +0000 UTCHe mentioned in the chapter where they were in the garden where he was growing a seed that he keeps a dozen similar early d-grade shoes.
James Getgood
2025-10-28 22:56:14 +0000 UTCThanks for the chapter.
Joshua Little
2025-10-28 22:32:44 +0000 UTCI don't understand how the Old Heavens czn justify this. Even Zac doesn't. He mentions this chapter or last that yes the Heavens hates his Void Road but there are clearly things it hates worse, worst taboos. The Old Heavens MUST adhere to the laws so we always thought, but clearly something is amiss and different with Zac. Even accounting for his Void stuff. The Heavens aren't trying to chastise, warn, or punish like it does with nearly everyone else. It wants Zac tk absolutely die and die in immense agony. White bolts... Aren't those what one faces when confirming/defending their Dao? If I recall is this what the Eveningtide Aura faces as a Divine Monarch reaching for Autarchy back at the Twilight Harbor? Come on there no damn way it can't know as a Peak Hegemon such is absurdly extreme, Void or not. Zac is clearly not like one of those Kan'Tanu heretics or doing shit as foul as Mox was... He simply and objectively isn't... Nor is he a being of a previous Era's Dao like that creep that kidnapped Vilari... It has no defensible reasons or logic for bringing this type of Tribulation against merely a Hegemon, no matter their power or foundations... It is like it had shifted all of Zac's Tribulations up a Grade. What everyone else has to fight through as a Monarch, if even then, ,ac has to figure out how to endure now with way less power and resources. So what as a Monarch himself he will have to figure out how to survive Tribulations an Autarch usually faces? This seems beyond regular Cosmic Order. I was on fhe fence before, but seeing this just pushed me over the line. It seems like for Zac it is personal. I always thought the Heavens were this impartial force with no real intelligence that was simply more like a computer program following a set algorithm, what we know of as the current Cosmic Order. Yet shit like this makes me think maybe there is not stupidly powerful being that, of not controlling Tribulations, is at least certainly skewing them in ways that shouldn't be allowed. This seems more like the Heavens personally hate Zac, as if he did every possible evil, dark, and foul thing a person could ever do to it, and it wants revenge. We have seem it for a while now. It even acts petty! That white bolt stopping early and simply withdrawing because Zac's core would have simply been tempered by that level of Tribulation that was left, the anger, it's clearly petty. Remember back on that Memorysteel Mountain when Zac was eating a Tribulation with Void Heart was actively trying to maximize the lightning he got? It didnt act like this? It just faded away like well, did all I was allowed to, see ya next time. Plus seemingly marking him to give itself a reminder to extra hurt him next time? This is petty... We have seen Tribulations from other POVs and none of those seem like this at all. Even the evil Pope guy at the Graveyard didnt receive the vengeful, spiteful, hatred and pettiness Zsc just received. And that guy was as evil and fucking foul as you can get! Violating every Cosmic rule with gleeful abandon! And being like Mox can do eons and eons of the fell shit she was doing? This makes zero sense. The Old Heavens cant even pretend to be an impartial judge, arbiter of Cosmic justice, and balance and all that. This is all a lie that it isnt even trying to hide any more. All pretense is gone, it simply wants Zac dead, and if anything its only angrier it cannot get away with bringing enough resources to bear that no amount of effort a Hegemon could exert could survive it. Its actually already there honestly, Zac had thus far just been so Fated and had maximized so many opportunities that his accumulation has kept him ahead of even this level of absurd overkill the Old Heavens is hurling at Zac. Zac even calls this overpowered and when he said the Balance is eschewed last chapter, that was him telling the System the Heavens is clearly acting beyond what it should be allowed to, trying to get its aid. Zac KNOWS we won't have this level of prep for future breakthroughs. Even here at the LIE he is struggling to survive these... Something with the Heavens kn regards to Zac is clearly broken.... He doesn't break the Four Laws badly enough to warrant this, we simply know for a fact he doesn't as we witness his journey... Zac knows he has to figure something out soon. It took all of these arrays, the absurd Bloodline he has against all odds, all that Imperial Faith and Destiny, the Empyrean Chalice blessing, the perfected Core only possible because a goddess made it so, those 3 Elixers that are only buyable here, his bodies being split in two, and a stupid amount of ither things out Cultivators could never even have a single one of all stacked on top of each other and its barely enough. Lacking even one of those could have meant he just died right here and now. Something is forcing Zac's Tribulations to be worse than should be possible by the Heaven's own rules. Whatever that is seems to have at least some limits though or we know it would just bring down enough energy to kill a Divine Monarch version of Zac but while he is still a Hegemon to no matter what MAKE sure he just dies unfairly. We are seeing whatever those limits are though matter less as its clearly bringing down even more and more beyond what should be allowed with each breakthrough. It isnt far from already doing that though. It isnt reasonable to expect someone to have to have as much as Zac had to use here just to survive this one Tribulation but for every single one of his. Its just waiting until Zac finally just can't keep fielding this many stacked advantages and it can happily, finally just kill him which is clearly all it wants with him at this point.
Dennis Damenis
2025-10-28 22:21:51 +0000 UTCSmall typo: 'It released a bust of glory' bust->burst
Chewbacchus
2025-10-28 22:10:44 +0000 UTCI wouldn't be surprised if he used it to extend the breakthrough after things start cooling off, given his luck.
Andrew P
2025-10-28 21:45:45 +0000 UTCWhat about his clothes and hair? Are they recreated with creation energies or does he have a ring full of battle clothes to replace what he lost, can you imagine how many boots he would have to go through ?
Flameboy
2025-10-28 21:32:48 +0000 UTCDo you remember when Zac asked Yrial the lord of cycles if he has to wait 10 more years before visiting him again? Zacs progress is enormous leaving earth just as a middle hegemon and returning as a peak one. Can't wait for the reactions.
Markus
2025-10-28 21:26:28 +0000 UTCEverything went well but both void heart and wherever the void vortex put the lighting will come back out hope that won’t ruin things
Hoid
2025-10-28 20:48:13 +0000 UTCIt feels surreal to see the tribulation be done with such "ease," given that Zac barely made it through all the ones before. Obviously, it makes sense that this one would be different, considering all the preparations that have been done. But still, I can't believe it xd. For once, we won't have to go through a healing process for our boy to be in peak performance, which is nice for a change
CloudyBall
2025-10-28 20:37:06 +0000 UTCPersistent typo starting here: 'small part of the rerouted lighting lost its way, reducing the total lighting Zac had to endure' lighting->lightning
Chewbacchus
2025-10-28 20:35:40 +0000 UTCAnd on Sunday we shall see the status screen
SandreX
2025-10-28 20:33:48 +0000 UTCThe Heavens at the end: I'm watching you boy, you survived today but you'll eventually have to become a Monarch and there won't be an Empire to help when I come back. Next chapter core building and Peak Hegemony.
Omiso
2025-10-28 20:30:24 +0000 UTCThe upgrade isn't done yet, so we have plenty of time for a curveball. His bodies didn't get split until AFTER the core formation process was technically complete.
Taylor Greenwell
2025-10-28 20:30:10 +0000 UTCStill two core formation stages left.
Jeff McCulley
2025-10-28 20:28:36 +0000 UTCWhite lightning = moonshine. Jack Daniel’s has to be next. ;) Stellar = gold?
Jeff McCulley
2025-10-28 20:27:36 +0000 UTCWell, didn’t mix in a battle or frantic core formation stuff this time.
Jeff McCulley
2025-10-28 20:25:40 +0000 UTCTo be completely fair…he did have the assistance of the Limitless Empire. And the System is the Imperial Tutor. ;)
Jeff McCulley
2025-10-28 20:24:43 +0000 UTCYeah, he will have to attempt C grade in the void gate without a doubt. The good news is that assuming he survives heaven's attacks he usually comes out better for it. Hopefully his peak d grade core will be a perfected one as well and not lose quality during the rest of the process.
Taylor Greenwell
2025-10-28 20:23:38 +0000 UTCCould have gone worse? Sure. Also prolly couldn’t have gone much better.
Jeff McCulley
2025-10-28 20:22:56 +0000 UTCFive bolts, the last one white? Yeah, that drew attention. The folks in the surrounding Fuxi Halls are munching on popcorn, watching to see what comes next.
Jeff McCulley
2025-10-28 20:21:48 +0000 UTC5 bolts starting at the limits of a Middle D grade breakthrough. I knew he was going to get it extra bad.
MacMahon Wenzl
2025-10-28 20:21:10 +0000 UTCAgreed. It is super satisfying to actually see it go well for once without the fuckery. Though he still has a bit to go to finish up the upgrade so there is plenty of time for a curve ball.
Taylor Greenwell
2025-10-28 20:20:52 +0000 UTCSeriously he really will have to breakthrough in the void gate as a monarch and beyond because this kind of hatred from the heavens is so beyond the norm, its insane. Seriously makes one wonder why cultivating the Void is such a massive taboo to the Heavens. Maybe its just the simple fact that its not the proper heavenly path but still capable of reaching the peak? No telling. Still, looking forward to the benefits such a tempering to his cores nucleus and its outter pieces will bring. Seriously Yriel is going to spit spirit blood when he learns of zacs adventures to Peak D grade. Your core was tempered by WHAT???
Lex Luther S
2025-10-28 20:20:20 +0000 UTCOuch. Well, that could have gone worse... he seems to have exploding eyes a lot, that must be ao disconcerting. However, he's really going to have to dig into his Sindris heritages or work on that Fuxi Mountain Gate hack he's planning to figure out a way to deal with these tribulations going forward
James Getgood
2025-10-28 20:18:45 +0000 UTCLoved this chapter. First time in hegemony Zac has not had to rely on the system to bail him out and proves that even if the system has been essential to his meteoric rise with its attentions that he is not its bitch and is able to cultivate as a true eonic seed without its support. I also love seeing him have a positive, straightforward breakthrough after the shit show his middle and late hegemony breakthroughs were. I really really really am hoping his peak d grade core will retain the perfected quality that no one else in the trial should have. Not even Iz or the other top flamebearers. That might allow him to actually compete with them on even footing finally.
Taylor Greenwell
2025-10-28 20:18:22 +0000 UTCSo funny that as he progresses the tribulations will be shorter page count wise. I like it though
Ron Whitlatch
2025-10-28 20:16:26 +0000 UTCWhite lightning already. Wonder what his dao confirmation/defense is going to look like.
Siethrobo
2025-10-28 20:11:09 +0000 UTCThe heavens really have it out for Zac. His C grade tribulations will be the stuff of legends, probably will make B grades clutch their pearls in horror if they ever saw what the hell he was up against
Stevean Bozek
2025-10-28 20:03:56 +0000 UTCSuperb chapter. I like how this tribulation played out so far. Its like all his preparation is actually paying off. Helps that he isn't being forced to deal with anything too crazy this time.
Abartk
2025-10-28 20:01:23 +0000 UTCWoot! Good to see Zac was able to weather to storm properly this time, instead of the "OHH SHIT!" that usually happens.
sgt_turtle
2025-10-28 19:59:15 +0000 UTCTFTC! Rewards time let’s go 👍👍👍👍
Tom C
2025-10-28 19:53:39 +0000 UTCHairy chested again :/
DonnyDF
2025-10-28 19:50:58 +0000 UTCSecond😓
Monk
2025-10-28 19:47:03 +0000 UTCFirst
Abartk
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